What's Wrong With Crazy
Strange Feels Like Home
shadows have become companions
fits the mood I’m in today
into the depths of hollow canyons
filling voids of my decay
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circling round and round my body
comfort comes as I inhale
flash and flare - excessive, gaudy
tearing down my lonely veil
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strangeness seems to fit my comfort
Normal makes me insecure
slowly they’re drawn to my hearts hurt
too late now to find a cure
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Take hold of the one, doesn't want you to change
The one unashamed, of who you really are
ones truly connected, when they call you strange
who sees the true beauty in those things, bizarre
Then, you're finally home
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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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Comments (9)
Haunting and extremely well-written!
Peculiar inside my own being❤️💯😉 Great Piece❗
I feel like you wrote this for me! Normal makes me very insecure. I like being different although people think I'm strange. Their strange is my normal. Their normal is my strange. Loved your poem!
Strange is beautiful, and so is this poem.
I've long said that the definition of crazy is to think or act outside of the norm. But since the norm today is to be different, that means if you're normal you're crazy & if you're crazy you're normal. Yeah, the doctor might have dropped me on my head a few times when I was born, lol. Welcome home, Kelli.
That was so good and a cold comfort! I really like the art as well!
"Then you're finally home" This whole poem spoke to me, but the last line really stuck. Loved it :)
Your last stanza encapsulates how I feel right now, and how I've felt for a good portion of my life. While I have found people I click or vibe with, there's often a sense or reality of the other person wanting change that benefits them and not the relationship or my growth as a person. Being unique is a gift. Still waiting for that tribe to manifest as well as that One to share my next forever with.
This had a seriously lovely loveliness to it and yes, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a little different and strange!